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Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer
TIME: Gregory Currie, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham, recently argued in the New York Times that we ought not to claim that literature improves us as people, because there is no “compelling evidence that
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Sexual Selection and the Paradox of Male Mortality
There is a paradox in the human gender and health literature that has been recognized, but ignored for some years. There are consistent sex differences in mortality and longevity between men and women, with women
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Integrated Classroom: Mind-body Interactions
In previous decades, cognitive psychology has focused on the mind to the exclusion of the body. More recent research has begun to demonstrate the interaction between physical actions and mental processing through areas such as
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The Prevalence of Declining Effect Sizes in Educational Research
Effect sizes are the statistic generated by meta-analyses, a commonly used statistic in education research. This project uses a methodological framework similar to that of Jennions and Moller (2001) to determine whether declining effect sizes
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Women’s Understanding Of Personal Breast Cancer Risk — Does Education Level Matter?
A woman’s understanding of her own breast cancer risk is an important precursor for care. A valid estimate would allow for a greater opportunity to consider early detection modalities and chemopreventive medications. The objective of
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An Assessment of the Validity of a Self-Scored Creativity Test
We assessed the Purdue Creativity test’s self-scoring system by comparing self-scores of 92 AP Psychology students to the scores given by a panel of the student’s peers. We found that there was, on average, a
